A pipeline valve production workshop costing 1 billion rubles, built by ООО Torgovy Dom ADL, received its commissioning permit in Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, on 17 January 2023. The 6,500 sq m facility created 55 jobs.

Graphic Packaging International is moving its Bristol, UK beverage packaging operations to a new 255,000-square-foot factory nearby, creating up to 30 new jobs. The site is expected to be fully operational in Q4 2023.

Horizon Acres Associates proposes a $142 million, 1.5 million square-foot flex campus with six commercial/industrial facilities in the Town of Pembroke, New York. Construction is planned to start later this year and could create up to 400 jobs.

Edwards Vacuum, part of Atlas Copco, is seeking incentives for a first phase of $212 million to build a semiconductor dry pump manufacturing facility at STAMP in Genesee County, New York. It would create 343 high-wage jobs.

Engineered Foam Packaging, a J.B. Poindexter subsidiary, plans to establish a 117,000-square-foot facility in Bishopville, Lee County, investing $15 million and creating 53 jobs. Operations are expected online by August 2023.

Hintastica, a 50-50 joint venture of Hindware Home Innovation and Groupe Atlantic, inaugurated a geyser plant in Jadcherla with a Rs 210 crore investment and 500 planned jobs. A further Rs 100-150 crore expansion is planned to lift capacity by at least 50%.

NETZSCH Pumps & Systems assembled its first progressing cavity pump at the new NETZSCH Campus in Waldkraiburg, Germany, on 9 January 2023. The campus unites three local sites and is planned to run without fossil fuels.

Progroup has started production at its PW14 corrugated sheetfeeder plant in Stryków, Poland, which can produce up to 200,000 tonnes of corrugated sheetboard. The EUR 72 million project created 50 jobs.

Midea-owned Welling Auto Parts started production on January 6, 2023 at the first phase of its new NEV parts base in Anqing, Anhui province. The base targets 1 million electric compressors, 1.2 million EPS motors and 200,000 drive motors a year.

Edwards opened a 200,000-square-foot facility in Chandler, Arizona, in November 2022 for remanufacturing and assembly of vacuum pumps for the US semiconductor market. The site is expected to create about 200 new jobs.

Linde signed an investment memorandum with Gyeonggi Province for about KRW 150 billion to build an industrial gas plant in Pyeongtaek producing semiconductor rare gases such as krypton and xenon, to be completed by 2031.

EFP, a J. B. Poindexter subsidiary, has opened its first South Carolina plant in Bishopville, Lee County, a 117,000 sq ft facility for custom protective packaging and cold chain solutions. The $15 million investment was first announced in January 2023 and the company has hired 30 employees toward a planned 50.

Saica Pack opened a new flagship corrugated packaging facility in Livingston, Scotland during 2023, with a total investment of over £50 million. The project began in 2020 and was delayed by COVID.

Schneider Electric plans to invest Rs 425 crore in a new smart factory in Bengaluru that will consolidate 6 of its 10 existing local factories. The campus will expand to 10 lakh square feet and create over 1,000 jobs, with 80% of output exported.

Ingersoll-Rand (India) Limited's board approved on December 22, 2022 a new manufacturing plant in Gujarat, India, with an investment of about INR 170 crore. The plant will add 5,000 units per month initially by September 2024 and make air compressors, air treatment devices and hydrogen compressors.

Safran will set up a new production plant in the Walloon region of Belgium for titanium compressor blades and vanes for LEAP engines. The 10,000-square-metre facility will feature automation and advanced digital technologies.

Safran Aero Boosters announced a new titanium compressor blades and vanes plant in Marchin, Liège province, Wallonia, as a €50 million investment in partnership with Belgian and Walloon public investment bodies. The plant is due to be operational in 2025 and employ around 100 people.

KEZAD Group signed a 50-year land lease with Star Paper Mill for a AED 200 million facility on a 59,000 square metre site in Abu Dhabi to make recycled kraft paper jumbo reels, in collaboration with RC Paper Machines.

Amcor opened its new flexible packaging plant in Huizhou, China, with an investment of almost USD 100 million. The facility is expected to employ more than 550 people and serves food and personal-care customers.

Mondi has started production at a €16 million greenfield paper bag plant in Tangier, Morocco, capable of 100 million bags per year, bringing its West Africa paper bag capacity above 500 million bags annually.

Nelipak Healthcare Packaging will initially invest at least $11.8 million to establish a flexible healthcare packaging production site in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, creating at least 36 jobs.

Egypt's Ibda initiative signed a shareholder agreement with Spain's Coperci, part of Mondragon, to build Egypt's first gas safety valve factory with capacity of 15 million valves and an investment of about $7.6 million, scheduled to open in April 2023.

OKAY Industries built a 62,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in the Evolution Free Zone in Grecia, Costa Rica, to relocate and expand its operations, expected to be completed in summer 2024 and adding over 200 jobs.

TCP Group and Crown Holdings formed a joint venture, Crown TCP, investing 1,500 million baht in an aluminum can factory in Nong Khae Industrial Estate, Saraburi Province. The plant will produce over 820 million cans per year for Red Bull exports.

Gatner Packaging, formerly Janmar Centrum, is close to commissioning its corrugated packaging plant in Stryków, Poland, and will start production in December 2022.

Schmalz India Pvt. Ltd. officially launched a new 1000 sq m manufacturing unit in Bhosari, Pune, for assembling and localizing vacuum handling systems, with an investment of 15 crores.

Kensa Group officially opened the UK's largest factory dedicated to ground source heat pumps at Mount Wellington Mine in Truro, Cornwall, after investment from Legal & General Capital. The factory has capacity for 30,000 heat pumps a year.

Axium Packaging is investing $45 million to construct a new facility called Vertix in New Albany, Ohio, which will also house a new product line for recycled plastic packaging.

Bertotto Boglione opened a new 8,000 m2 industrial plant in Marcos Juárez, Córdoba, for final assembly of pumps, fuel dispensers and pipes, employing over 200 people.

Russian group Arnest, the new owner of former Ball Corporation assets, will resume building an aluminium beverage can plant in the Zavolzhye industrial zone of Ulyanovsk Oblast. Total investment will exceed 10 billion rubles, with completion planned by end of 2023 and up to 200 jobs.

Crown Bevcan is building a 625,000 square foot aluminium beverage can factory on the former Mars Petcare site in Woodston, Peterborough, with more than £150 million invested. The factory is expected to be operational by the end of 2023 and will create 280 vacancies.

Swimming pool technology maker BINDER has begun construction of a new headquarters and production building in the Langes Feld industrial estate in Hameln, Germany, investing 10 million euros. Production is due to start in spring 2023, with administration following at the end of 2023.

Saica Group has begun operations at a new plant in Hamilton, Ohio, producing corrugated board and packaging. It is the company's first manufacturing site in the US and its tenth country of operation.

CLEMENS Technologies is building a 14,000 m² production and 3,000 m² administration building in Wittlich-Wengerohr, Germany, with an investment of 10.5 million euros. The company says it will double and modernise its production capacity and secure 220 jobs.

Sonoco plans a new protective packaging facility in Bursa, Turkey, to produce Sonopost cornerposts, with production expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2022. It is the company's second Sonopost plant in Europe after one in Sochaczew, Poland.

L-PACK Kashira LLC plans to build a factory worth 2 billion rubles in Kashira, Moscow Region, to make corrugated cardboard and secondary corrugated packaging for milk and juices, with commissioning scheduled for 2024.

Amcor, an Australia-based packaging company, opened a flexible packaging manufacturing plant in Huizhou, China, in December 2022, built with an investment of about $100 million and expected to employ more than 550 people.

Hoerbiger Compressor Technology held a groundbreaking on November 29, 2022 for a China base in Changzhou's Sino-Swiss innovation park. The 43-mu site has a total investment of US$100 million and is expected to exceed 500 million yuan in annual sales once at full output.

HOERBIGER initiated construction of a new plant in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, on 29 November 2022, to house its Compression and Safety operations. The building is due for completion by the end of 2023.

Ziehl-Abegg is investing 100 million euros in a new 46,500 m2 US production plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, expected ready for occupancy in 2024, with the existing Greensboro site relocated there in 2025.

British Euro Packaging Group (EP Group) reportedly will invest nearly €47 million in a new plant at the Port of Marseille Fos, France, to produce paper bags and packaging.

Edwards, part of Atlas Copco Group, is building a 15,000 m2 manufacturing facility in Asan City, South Korea, for vacuum and abatement systems used in semiconductor manufacturing, expected to be fully operational in Q3 2023.

Sheen Legend Packaging received a C$2.5 million investment through the Jobs and Growth Fund for a new Cobourg, Ontario facility producing biodegradable plant-based packaging materials. The project will raise production capacity by 50%.

Vetropack is investing over CHF 400 million in a new high-tech glass plant in Boffalora sopra Ticino near Milan, replacing its Trezzano sul Naviglio site. Production is expected to start in the second quarter of 2023 with about 70 per cent more capacity.

Megaplast inaugurated a new flexible packaging production plant in Thebes on 18 November 2022. The 72,000 m2 site has 9,100 m2 of covered space and is expected to employ 70 people, with five production lines planned at full build-out.

Edwards plans to open a new dry vacuum pump manufacturing facility in the WNY STAMP park in Genesee County, New York, with a $319 million investment that will create around 600 skilled jobs. The first phase is a 240,000 sq ft site costing about $127 million.

Brazil's Packem and India's Umasree Texplast are partnering on a new plant near Ahmedabad that will make 100% sustainable rPET FIBC/jumbo bags and is expected to create about 700 jobs.

Emerson has begun construction of a new 50,000 square meter plant in Arteaga, Coahuila, to assemble scroll compressors for residential and commercial air-conditioning. About 500 workers are expected to be employed.

Guangdong Forsberg Intelligent Equipment plans to invest 500 million yuan in an intelligent plant in Foshan, Guangdong, to make corrugated cardboard production line equipment. The project covers about 80 mu.

Emerson announced on November 8, 2022 a new 50,000 square meter plant in Arteaga, Coahuila to assemble scroll compressors for residential and commercial air conditioning, expected to create 1,200 jobs at full capacity.